CHAPTER 590

An Act to amend and reenact § 53-222 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to bonus for prisoners.
[H 518]

Approved April 4, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 53-222 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 53-222. Tasking prisoners; compensation; bonus.—The State Board
may establish a system of tasking prisoners confined at any penal insti-
tution or farm operated by the Board as a part of the State penal system
when it can be done, and allow to any such prisoner such reasonable
compensation for work done beyond his task as it determines; and in
addition thereto may provide for the payment of a bonus to any such
prisoner who is assigned to employment in any position of responsibility
as determined by the Board the amount of such bonus to be fixed by
such Board with the approval of the Governor. * The amount due any such
prisoner shall be placed to his credit, and paid him when he is discharged
from imprisonment, or, if he request that a portion, or all of it, be paid
to his family or near relatives, the Board may provide for such payment
at any time during his imprisonment; or, upon request of the prisoner,
may permit him to receive payment, from time to time, in provisions or
other articles selected by him from a list prepared by the Director. Such
provisions and articles shall be such as are or have been purchased by the
respective institutions for their own use, and shall be charged to the
prisoner at cost.